WHY THE ROD CLASS DC GUN CASE LAYS THE FOUNDATION FOR THE

INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR NATURAL JUSTICE

By Rebecca Cope, Founding Director, ITNJ
2,000 researchers observed the Rod Class Washington, DC Gun Case determined to answer this
question:

What Foundational Law underpins the current Judicial System in the united
States?
The case was heard in the UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA was the Plaintiff. RODNEY CLASS was the Defendant. Case
Number Criminal Action CR 13 253 (with Judges Initials added later to designate a superseded
case number.)
The first question the scholars wanted to know is how UNITED STATES OF AMERICA could bring
a criminal charge against a civilian. There is no Constitutional mandate of any kind to allow any
Court to charge a civilian with a criminal offense. Who is the injured party? A criminal charge,
according to the rules, has to be heard before a Jury of his peers and only when someone has
been injured.
Why was Class charged on a DC city gun ordinance that had been ruled unconstitutional by the
Supreme Court? Was the City of Washington, DC, and were their courts, not under the
supervision of the Supreme Court?
By what authority did UNITED STATES OF AMERICA presume any jurisdiction over a civilian?
Further, WHICH ENTITY was bringing the charge?

Most people miss the significance of this study. Let me explain.

Rod Class is best known for his North Carolina Ruling in 2010-2011 that got two Judges to admit
on the public record that the Agents working for the STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA were NOT
Public Officials but were in fact, private entities, Corporations. The ruling went so far as to state
that the elected Governor was not under the Executive Branch and therefore not classified as
a Public Official answerable to the people of the State.
We now had it on the Public Record: The Judges, Court Officers, Law Enforcement, City
Municipalities, DMV, STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, even the Governors office, were NOT part of

the Executive, Legislative, nor Judicial Branch of Government under the Constitution. They were
Administrative Agents under the jurisdiction of a foreign power.
Our government was not what we believed it to be.
The question was germane: Who is UNITED STATES OF AMERICA? Who pays the salary of the
Court Officials? How does a private, for-profit Corporation presume to have jurisdiction over a
peaceful inhabitant, a civilian? If you visited the parking lot of Walmart, and you werent an
employee of Walmart, you would look at the security guard with disbelief if he arrested you for
not following one of the rules and regulations of Walmart. Only the employees of the
Corporation are subject to their rules and regulations.

The NC ruling caused the 2,000 Researchers to put a laser focus on the Rod Class
DC Gun Case.
The researchers were legal and law scholars. They knew the rules and regulations under which
the Judiciary are mandated to act, according to the Constitution, according to American
Jurisprudence, and according to the Fiduciary duties of the Judiciary as defined by their Job
Description in various legislative acts, congressional records, and under Statutory Law. Many of
the scholars were well-versed in Contract Law, UCC Law, Trust and Equity Law, Common Law,
Natural Law, even Ecclesiastical and Canon Law. Most had a working understanding of the Rules
of Probate. Many were well-versed in the Laws of War, the Leiber Code, the War Powers Act,
and more. Most understood the difference between Admiralty Law, Roman Civil Law,
Jurisprudence, and Common Law.
None of the researchers were lawyers. They were not under Oath to the British Accreditation
Registry. (BAR Association) They were impartial observers intent on understanding what form of
law was in operation in the DC Court room, whether or not the Court Officers followed their
own Rules, and what Jurisdiction and Venue they claimed as their authority over a civilian
population.
There were some major surprises. The conclusions were devastating to the American people. It
explains why the prison population of America has exploded. It explains why there is no
remedy and no relief, and why Pro-Se litigants only win 3% of the time. It explains the explosion
in foreclosure cases where many have lost their homes while the banks and their cronies create
millions off of the paperwork; why Child Support Enforcement often ends in Debtors Prison;
why a simple traffic violation can land people in prison, result in exorbitant fines, support a
rather large outgrowth of supported services like probation officers, for-profit prisons, ankle
bracelets, DUI schools, and more.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE CASE

Rod Class is a teacher who can quote Statutory Law, Constitutional Law, Military Law, Common
Law and more, with precise definitions and full understanding of any paperwork a Prosecutor
might write. Class was arrested in May, 2013, on a routine visit to the capitol to visit what he
thought of as his Congressional Representative. He parked in his usual spot. When he returned
to his Jeep, it was surrounded by numerous law enforcement personnel.
Rod Class has a Concealed Carry permit from the State of North Carolina. He has a
Congressional appointment as a Private Attorney General, and is a designated Constitutional
Bounty Hunter whose main duty is to hold Public Officials accountable. He had no weapon of
any kind with him. They were in a gun locker in his jeep. He did NOT have any firearms as
defined by Statute. Yet he was charged with two violations of possession of a firearm by the
Capitol Hill Police. The charge was serious, carrying a 10-year prison sentence and a possible
fine of $250,000.
The bizarre case that unfolded is typical of current-day courtroom behavior in the USA. Except
for one thing: a trained group of observers could document exactly how and in what manner
the various Court Officers violated the rules of conduct that laid out their duties and
responsibilities, and the Rules of the Court. Class filed the evidence of their errors into the
Court record. The Judge found ways to deny the filing, even though this is a violation of due
process and makes any court official who has participated in such attempts at evidence
suppression guilty of numerous crimes.
The most significant point is that Rod Class acted as his own counsel, but as a Third Party
Intervenor. Class, the Civilian, represented the GOVERNMENT COPYRIGHT TRADEMARK NAME
RODNEY DALE CLASS. Some people refer to this entity as The Strawman. It is the corporate
fiction created by the birth event recorded by the Department of Health/Vital Statistics by the
Constitutional government Corporation and then transferred to the Administrative Agents
who supervise the Bankruptcy under the Emergency Banking Act of 1933 for the Banking Cartel.
The SOURCE DOCUMENTS that Class introduced as evidence into his case show how the people
of America have been under siege as an occupied nation since 1933. The complete takeover by
a foreign power occurred without the peoples knowledge.
HOW the birth registration creates the methods used by the various Administrative Agencies to
harvest the resources of the human capital under their management is at issue in this case.
How the Administrative Agents have embezzled those funds, stolen them from both the
American people and the government by failure to pay off the Public Debt, is also at issue.

This detailed study was carried out over a two-year period.

I was one of those Researchers. Heres what we learned:

1. When Judge Kessler warned Rod Class he had to know their rules and their laws in order
to represent himself in her courtroom, Rod challenged her to reveal what law was in
operation in the courtroom. He filed the Constitution, the complete annotated book of
Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, and the local rules of the court into the case record.
He also brought up American Jurisprudence. This was in July, 2014.
2. Judge Kessler was removed from the case, the second Judge to fall under the relentless
onslaught of Classs efforts to hold them accountable to their own rules. Two
prosecutors had already left the case.
3. The buck stopped with the arrival of Chief Judge Roberts. So did any semblance that any
Rule of Law would be followed in the DC Gun Case. Stunned observers were left with
one irrefutable conclusion:
a. Chief Judge Roberts was presiding over a War Crimes Tribunal. USC 50- War and
National Defense Chapter 3, Section 23 carries the only judicial reference that
would allow a Judge to prosecute such a frivolous charge as a serious criminal
felony.
b. The ONLY EXPLANATION for the case could be found under the Laws of War: Rod
Class was being charged for a BREACH OF THE PEACE DURING A TIME OF WAR.
c. How could a civilian be picked up on charges and treated as if he was a prisoner
of war? Vietnam came to mind.
d. It slowly dawned on the observers: War on Drugs, War on Drunk Driving, War on
Deadbeat Dads, War on Terror: Endless War! Finally, the form of Law was
starkly revealed: ALL TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS, ALL HOME FORECLOSURE CASES, ALL
CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT CHARGES, ANY CIVIL CASE THAT CARRIES A
CRIMINAL PENALTY falls under the Laws of War.
e. The population of America was captured in 1933, converted to Enemies of the
State by the Amendatory Act of 1933 (Trading with the Enemy/War Powers Act),
all their property had been conscripted for the War Effort (War Powers Act of
1917) and they were no longer treated as civilians of an occupied territory. They
were enemies of the State, duly conquered by the Bankster Corporations
posing as governments.
f. The SOURCE DOCUMENTS put all this into perspective as the case unfolded.
HOW the American people have been pirated and plundered by the Courts and
put in jail so that for-profit prisons can proliferate was more than the Researchers
could handle at times.
g. Under the War Powers Act, during a National Emergency, anyone deemed a war
criminal was subject-to the Jurisdiction of a Martial Military Procedure with no

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rights nor remedies available to anyone so charged. It appears that anyone who
claims to be a US CITIZEN as the court defines that term is a WAR CRIMINAL
subject to their jurisdiction.
h. The substituted constitution spells it out that an enemy charged as a war criminal
can be treated as a slave with no consequences to the one levying the charge.
The observers were horrified as this mild-mannered Southern Gentleman was literally
kidnapped from the VA hospital, shackled, and thrown in jail for 21 days for a contempt
of court charge that could not then be explained.
The observers were surprised that Karen Hudes appeared at the Court hearing, and
visited Rod Class in jail. He was told by Hudes that the people could not expect the
criminal justice system to reform 100%. They would be lucky if it reached a 70% level of
fairness. In other words, Class standing up to The System would result in more
harassment for him and his followers.
It was later learned that the arrest warrant came from a new case. All the paperwork
from the original case had been sealed, his filings kept off of Pacer, and a new case by
the same number, but adding the initials of the Judge, superseded the original case.
The arrest warrant had proceeded from a secret Grand Jury hearing that Class was not
informed about, and a new charge superseded.
a. Hint: 2000 observers downloading both sides of all the paperwork now know the
truth with such devastating evidence of prosecutors tampering with definitions,
tampering with the Grand Jury, and Judges nullifying the right to Trial By Jury.
Not to mention proof that Class was being treated as a WAR CRIMINAL.
When he reappeared before the Judge, Class noticed the new case number, clarified that
a change had been made, but was forced to accept a plea agreement if he was to ever
get out of jail.
The observers watched an out-of-control system use force, fear and fraud as their only
authority.
An appeal has been filed, following this method: Keep it simple; Go after the lowest
common denominator first. This filing could literally bring down the BAR Associations
hold over the American Legal System. Perhaps that is why it has not yet appeared on
Pacer, even though it has been received. For details, www.talkshoe.com/AIBRadio;

Conclusion: It was a very sobering process to watch court officers who did not even attempt
to follow the Rule of Law. Instead, the Judges and Prosecutors acted like war profiteers
drunk on their own power. They were. The War Powers Act of 1917, as amended by the
Banking Emergency Act of 1933, had put the Federal Reserve and their subsidiaries, the
Bank of International Settlements and the IMF, in charge of all government services.
The people themselves have never been told the truth. The courts knew. The BAR
Association knew. Those at the head of the municipalities and States knew. They failed to

inform the people that, as Enemy of the State, the rules had changed. The Judges,
Prosecutors and Public Defender took advantage of the game. They felt entitled to the
spoils of war. The people were fair game. Any agent posing as a public official who has
taken advantage of the civilian population is guilty of crimes against humanity. Nothing
excuses the deceptive acts and practices carried out in broad daylight upon an unsuspecting
population.

NOW THAT WE KNOW THE UNVARNISHED TRUTH, WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT?
Exposing the methods used by the Courts to claim authority over the people is the first step.
These rogue agents have no more authority than a Security Guard at Wal-Mart. When the
people fully understand the mind game that has been played upon them, they will be so
shocked that they will do whatever it takes to create a truly fair and equitable justice
system. That system does not currently exist within the Courts run by the Rogue
Corporations who have taken over through use of extreme violence and force. Here is what
our team has done:
1. 45 Court Observers filed in SF-95 Criminal complaints to document the procedural and
due-process violations in the DC Court Case. Since the owners are in charge of that
2. Agency also, there is not a fair system in place. Some complaints will be heard, some
have already been denied, one has been set for a hearing. It is a convoluted process not
for the faint of heart, but a valid process that goes after their insurance bonds.
3. Our Research Teams have started a massive educational campaign to fully expose the
Criminal Nature of the System of Corporations posing as Governments who hold our
courts hostage.
a. Posting THE SOURCE DOCUMENTS that Rod Class references in his court filings
and in his teaching. Coming soon: www.naturaljusticeacademy.org
b. Other researchers who have documented the Financial Corruption have joined
the effort. Their research is now being posted.
c. Judicial corruption is so widespread that the Judges believe they are above the
Rule of Law. They are not held accountable because there is nobody with the
power to challenge them. See Dr. Richard Corderos Report on Judicial
Corruption. www.itnjcommitte.org It, too, will be posted on NJA.
4. The International Tribunal for Natural Justice is an outgrowth of the Court Watcher
Project. Researchers, Judicial Reform advocates, those abused by the system, and others
came together to look for solutions. The same abuse is being documented throughout
the world.
5. The ITNJ is international in scope. The foundation has been laid to open an office in the
USA, one in London, UK, one in Australia and Norfolk Island, and one in South Africa.

WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO GET THIS INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FULLY

OPERATIONAL?
It will take the people getting behind this effort. We need your support in numerous ways.
1. SEND US YOUR CASES. The procedures posted on the ITNJ site will tell you how to post a
case for review. Or, contact info@itnj.org to submit a case.
2. Sign the ITNJ Treaty. The more who sign, the more clout we have to be a force for good
within the International Community.
3. BE ONE OF THE FIRST DONORS TO FUND THIS OPERATION! 10,000 people pledging
$25.00 a month for one year will give us the working capital to seat a full office in the
USA, in London, UK, in Australia and Norfolk Island, and open a branch in South Africa.
Visit the Committee to Support the ITNJ for more information. Be listed as a Founding
Donor on the ITNJ website!
4. Your immediate donation will allow us to hold the Inaugural Ceremony simultaneously in
the United States and in London, UK, on June 15, 2015, the day the Magna Carta was
signed 800 years ago at Runnymede.
5. VOLUNTEER! The volunteers have put in many, many hours to get this project so that
the foundational structures are in place to move forward with all due speed. Send an
email to contact@itnj.org to volunteer.
6. Become educated in the workings of the Law.
When we turned our courts over to the BAR Association, we lost many generations of civicminded individuals who knew the law and who could act as a safeguard to protect our liberty.
Our researchers have proven that knowing the law is the first step. It is not that difficult to learn
Natural Law, and to return oversight of government to the sovereign people.
Most of all, we need monthly donors willing to fund the International Tribunal for Natural
Justice. We have the foundation in place. We have the documents and the explanations by
numerous researchers to prove the mind-games that have been deliberately perpetrated
against the people of the world.
NON-ACTION IS NO LONGER AN OPTION. Now that we know, we have no choice but to find
peaceful ways to hold each agent acting for any Corporation accountable to the Rule of Law. Our
team has been tireless in our diligence to make the International Tribunal for Natural Justice a
force for good. The next step is up to you. We invite your participation, your prayers, and your
donations.